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I currently run Win XP inside VirtualBox on Debian. When Win has a problem it's very easy to go with the last snapshot and start fresh.
I am going to build a faster computer and am considering running Win and Linux on Xen. My concern is that that would give Win full access to the hard drive. If it had a problem, it could wipe Linux and Win out. Is that possible?
Windows on a virtual machine would only have the file based access that you gave it. You should not allow such a thing as full access to an entire boot drive.
First thing first, I'm not sure that it is a really good idea to install Windows on Xen.
When you're using xen, no full HW access is granted to a virtual machine.
The are two kinds of virtualization's CPU properties:
1st VT-X (Intel), AMD-V (AMD)
it is recommended for easy and fast CPU virtualization.
2nd VT-D, AMD-Vi
guest systems can get direct IO access
If your hardware supports VT-D or AMD-Vi, it doesn't mean that each gues OS has full IO/HW access. You have to configure what hardware is directly accessible from a guest.
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